A California appeals court ruled in favor of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, denying a call for an independent guardian to monitor her children's finances. Calling the petition an "unprecedented, meritless effort by a stranger" and directed an probat

The penile extender, a traction device for the dedicated — to be used at least six hours a day for at least six months — is not only safe and effective, doctors say, but also can increase erection size and improve erectile function.

The owner of a brothel hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases. The world is ready for women, or other men, to legally buy sex

Pope Benedict expressed "outrage, betrayal and shame" on Friday at the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland, which Church leaders said would lead to a shake-up of the Irish Roman Catholic Church.

The witness was Edward M. Egan, then the Roman Catholic bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. The question was about a priest who had been accused of sexually molesting children.
“I didn’t make a decision one way or the other,” said Bishop Egan, whom the la

Sharlet's book "The Family" is an investigative look at a secretive group of fundamentalist Christian lawmakers in Washington, D.C. In a recent interview with NPR's Terry Gross, he broke the news that The Family's influence in Uganda is rife.

As many as half the massage establishments in Mesa may have shuttered their doors since police began a crackdown on illicit activity two months ago.
The vanishing businesses are a result of police arresting employees on prostitution charges and is

[stock tip] A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it.
PSD502 -- which combines the drugs lidocaine and prilocaine -- is sprayed on

It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard.
On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings betwee

When asked specifically whether he killed Tiller, Roeder replied: "That is correct."
But Roeder, 51, said that he didn't consider what he did to be murder and that he had no intention of changing his plea to guilty.
"There is a distinction betw

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known

Is it sexy to be spiritual? New research has found that spirituality has a greater effect on the sex lives of young adults — especially women — than religion, impulsivity, or alcohol.
“I think people have been well aware of the role that religious

There have been few evolutionary reasons given for oral sex to date, and fellatio is largely thought confined to humans. Now scientists find the short-nosed fruit bat routinely engages in oral sex, the first time fellatio has been seen in adult anima

A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online porn

Rhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers.
The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it occurs. Prostitu

Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault peo

The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women is set to stand trial today, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody case in American history.

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at driving classified ads for prostitution off the Craigslist Web site. U.S. District Court Judge John Grady said not all postings on the Craigslist "Adult Services" section advertised prostitution and t

After initially ignoring a request for public records, the state Attorney General's Office
has released a stack of documents to a Peoria couple suing the state over an investigation into whether they had sexually abused their daughters.

A bankruptcy filing by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington was the best way to ensure reconciliation and compensation for all victims of clergy sexual abuse in the diocese, the bishop said. The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Now one high school student is facing criminal sexual conduct charges after his streaking across the field caused a near-riot. Streaking is serious business at St. Francis High School in Minnesota. It's emerged as an annual homecoming tradition, but

The latest case comes from Iowa, where the state's supreme court just upheld the 2005 conviction and sentence of Jorge Canal. While he was 18, a 14-year-old female friend asked Canal to send her a picture of his penis. Even the Iowa Supreme Court ac

Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck were both residents of Oregon when they were convicted of first-degree sexual assault on a child younger than 14 years of age. Neither case involved coercion, seduction, or nudity. In fact, neither case involved actu

First the good news. English men make better lovers than the Germans.
Now the bad news. We are trailing behind the rest of the world when it comes to the language of love.
What was it that led 15,000 well-travelled women to come to such an igno